Melinda Emily Thomas

Category: Essays

  • 7 Things I've Re-Learned about Yoga Since Becoming a Mother

    Eight weeks ago I become a mother. While I’m in love with my new son, our life together has yet to settle into a sustainable rhythm. It’s times like this when I am so grateful to have a yoga practice. It helps keep me somewhat sane and connected to the person I want to be. As…

  • The Spaces In Between

    “Life moves pretty fast. If you don’t stop to look around once in a while you might miss it.” This from the great sage, Ferris Buller 🙂 Everything is changing. As I move into my final weeks of pregnancy, as I stand at the threshold of motherhood, this statement is perhaps more true for me…

  • The Spaces In Between

    “Life moves pretty fast. If you don’t stop to look around once in a while you might miss it.” This from the great sage, Ferris Buller 🙂 Everything is changing. As I move into my final weeks of pregnancy, as I stand at the threshold of motherhood, this statement is perhaps more true for me…

  • Patiently Waiting

    Over the years I’ve noticed an interesting phenomenon that occurs when I finish reading a book or novel and don’t have another one waiting. I feel a little untethered. The same feeling of being untethered occurred when I completed the last round of edits on the novel. The story is done and the characters and…

  • Of French Toast, Adventures and Peg-Legged Gingerbread Men

    In honor of the coming Christmas Holiday, the broad window behind the checkout desk at the library sports a garland of construction paper gingerbread men and women “dressed” in various costumes. While the nice librarian was scanning my stack of books I let my eyes look over each one. Most were cute but a little…

  • Breaking Open

    A few years ago, when his wife’s Alzheimer’s progressed to the point where they could no longer be together, my Grandfather, who’d never been seriously ill in his life, began a spiral into depression and frailty. His tendency toward self-pity and mistrust only made things worse. He started falling down and deteriorated to the point…